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In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.

“This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on every level. . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Elizabeth Hay, Scotiabank Giller prize-winning author of Late Nights on Air

In True North Rising, Whit Fraser delivers a smart, touching and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders. Whit had a front-row seat at the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline inquiry, the constitutional conferences and the land-claims negotiations that successfully reshaped the North; he’s also travelled to every village and town from Labrador to Alaska. His vivid portraits of groundbreakers such as Abe Okpik, Jose Kusugak, Stephen Kakfwi, Marie Wilson, John Amagoalik, Tagak Curley, and his own wife, Mary Simon, bring home their truly historic achievements, but they also give us a privileged glimpse of who they are, and who Whit Fraser is. He may have begun as a know-nothing reporter from the south, but he soon fell in love with the North, and his memoir is a testament to more than fifty years of commitment to its people.

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True North Rising Full Details

Narrator Whit Fraser
Length 10 hours 14 minutes
Author Whit Fraser
Category
Publisher Random House of Canada
Release date May 01, 2024
ISBN 9781039005617

Subjects

The publisher of the True North Rising is Random House of Canada. includes the following subjects: social justice, activist, activism, cbc, reporter, journalist, journalism, pipelines, dene, inuit, indigenous books, northwest, nunavut, true north, arctic, canadian history, history of canada, history books for adults, memoir, memoirs, autobiographies, autobiography books, biographies, biography books, biography, biographies of famous people, political books, politics, native american, autobiography, native american books, native american history, native americans, essays, parenting, feminism, self help, writing, music, storytelling, Biography & Autobiography, Native Americans, Biography & Autobiography, Editors, Journalists The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Native Americans

Additional info

The publisher of the True North Rising is Random House of Canada. The imprint is Random House Canada. It is supplied by Random House of Canada. The ISBN-13 is 9781039005617.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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